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Destinos ★ "Lost" Annenberg Language Series with Subtitles

by: WGBH

Publication date: 1992
Topics: Spanish, Subtitles, Language Courses, Telenovela, Destinos, Nuevos Destinos, Entire Series Download Link, All Episodes, Complete Series, Educational, Adult Learners, Annenberg, "Lost" Annenberg Media, Learner dot org, PBS, Telecourse, Home School
Language: Spanish; English
Rights: Fair Use Notice
Item Size: 12.3G

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish ★ "Lost" Annenberg Language Series with Subtitles

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See also: Nuevos Destinos https://archive.org/details/nuevos-destinos

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This beginner's Spanish course was seen on PBS in the 1990's - and was Annenberg Media's most popular series. I've received several requests for it. I've been working on gathering it for many years. And user "Documentary Disc ISO Images" just posted the 12 DVD series as ISO Images - and the few episodes I was missing: https://archive.org/details/@documentary_disc_images and so my thanks to them!!!

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Requested by Nathaniel Noncent, and Others. Here it is: Thank you for your patience. Hopefully … it was worth your wait …

More Annenberg Series information page: https://web.archive.org/web/20090201010931/http://learner.org/resources/series75.html

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish was a video instructional series in Spanish for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 52 half-hour video programs divided into two parts (Part I programs 1-26, Part II programs 27-52), audiocassettes, music CD, video and audio scripts, and coordinated books.

Destinos teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish. This telenovela, or Spanish soap opera, immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers and introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. Understanding of Spanish and appreciation of many Hispanic cultures increase as students become absorbed in the mysterious and entertaining story. Closed captioning in Spanish can be used as a teaching and literacy resource. The series is also appropriate for teacher professional development.

ISBN: 1-55946-527-1

From: WGBH - Boston

Six years Later there was a Sequel called Nuevos Destinos from Annenberg Media … https://archive.org/details/nuevos-destinos

https://archive.org/details/@supersillyspam has all 15 episodes of Nuevos Destinos from VHS - Plus the Interactive DVD ROM - already posted!!

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destinos

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish, also known as simply Destinos, is a television program created by Bill VanPatten, who at the time was Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Running for two seasons, the show began in 1992 and was designed to introduce viewers to the basics of the Spanish language. Its 52 episodes were one of the most popular series on the Annenberg site to stream, and has sold more than any other Annenberg Media learning series or course.

Destinos was produced by WGBH Boston and funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project, with additional funding by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Format
Destinos uses the telenovela (Spanish soap opera) format to teach Spanish-language communication and comprehension skills. Early episodes have English-language narration in addition to Spanish dialogue, but the English content continually decreases before disappearing entirely. The viewer is introduced to the accents, dialects and cultures of various Spanish-speaking countries.

The series consists of 52 episodes that cover the scope of Spanish grammar, including verb tenses of present, future (including future of uncertainty), imperfect, preterite, perfect, pluperfect, participles, and the present, imperfect, and perfect forms of the subjunctive. It also covers a variety of country-specific usages: for example, it uses both the verb extrañar (to miss somebody or something) and the phrase echar de menos (which means the same thing). After the early episodes, the conversation is done at more or less normal speaking speed, improving the student's comprehension. Spanish subtitles are included on both VHS and DVD versions — translations are not provided.

An accompanying set of materials is available to complement the series; these include a set of audio tapes and a textbook, the latter of which follows the series episode-for-episode but provides a more systematic presentation such as would be used in a classroom course.

Destinos is characterized by frequent reviews of preceding episodes. This may make the series seem overly long and excessive, but the reviews provide repetition in order for viewers to retain the material. It is also characterized by the patriarchal figure Don Fernando, who - despite being on his deathbed in Episode 1 - never actually dies*.

* (In a weird twist of fate: the Actor Playing the "Old Man on his Deathbed" ACTUALLY Died ☠️ during the filming of the series - so his Character out-lived him - they re-used footage they already had, for Don Fernando, for the last episodes. He played a dying old man 💀 up until the point that he actually died - then "The Ghost in the Machine" stood in: and fulfilled his contract for him. 👻 )

Main characters
    Fernando Castillo Saavedra (Augusto Benedico) — The patriarch of the Destinos family was born in Spain but immigrated to Mexico following the Spanish Civil War. Don Fernando initiates an investigation after receiving a letter from a stranger, an acquaintance of his first wife, Rosario del Valle, whom he had long presumed killed in the civil war. The stranger, Teresa Suárez, lives in Spain and learned of Don Fernando's existence from a newspaper article. Sra. Suárez claims that Rosario survived the war and that she and Don Fernando have a son. Don Fernando is presently a widower and is in ill health. With his second wife, Carmen Márquez de Castillo, he had four children who are still living: Ramón, Carlos, Juan, and Mercedes. He is a retired industrialist who owns La Gavia, a vast, reconstructed estate northwest of Mexico City, D.F.

    Raquel Rodríguez Orozco (Liliana Abud) — was born in the United States and lives in Los Angeles though she has family in Mexico and has visited there frequently. She is a lawyer contracted by Don Fernando's brother, Pedro, and the Castillo-Saavedra family to conduct the investigation. Her research leads her first to Spain to find Teresa Suárez. She subsequently travels to Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Mexico in her search to discover the truth about Don Fernando's first wife, Rosario, and the child they had together.

    Ángel Castillo del Valle — The only son of Rosario and Don Fernando was born in Seville, Spain in 1937 and died in 1991. He lived his entire life believing his father had died in the Spanish Civil War. He grew up in Argentina, where his mother immigrated after the war. Ángel was a sailor for a short (and unsuccessful) period of time and made his living as an artist after moving to San Juan, Puerto Rico. There he married and had two children: Angela and Roberto.

    Arturo Iglesias del Valle (Arturo Puig) — was born in Argentina and lives in Buenos Aires. He is a psychiatrist, the only son of Rosario and Martín Iglesias and half-brother to Ángel. He agrees to assist Raquel in her search for Ángel, with whom he has lost contact. Arturo also develops a relationship with Raquel during her time in Buenos Aires. This occurs around Episodio 14.

    Angela Castillo Soto (Yasmín Pereira) — Was born in and lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is the only daughter of Ángel and is a computer programmer by profession. She attended the Interamericana de Puerto Rico in San Germán but now lives in the apartment previously owned by her parents.

    Roberto Castillo Soto (Edwin Francisco) — Was born in San Juan and currently lives in an unnamed small town in Mexico, where he is taking part in an archeological dig. The only son of Ángel, Roberto is an archeology student and is the last major character introduced in the series.

Trivia
    Augusto Benedico died before filming was finished; the ending used previously shot footage of Don Fernando.
    Maricarmen, daughter of Ramón and granddaughter of Don Fernando, is the real-life daughter of Liliana Abud.
    Pati's assistant in the theater production in New York City is played by series creator VanPatten.
    Jorge Martínez de Hoyos (playing Pedro) was familiar to American viewers from his role as Mexican villager Hilario in the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven.
    Both Arturo and Luis have the name Arturo in real life.

Nuevos Destinos
A follow-up story, Nuevos Destinos was produced by WGBH and McGraw-Hill for Annenberg in 1997. It revisits the Destinos story six years later as Raquel encounters a new family mystery. The episodes are only 15 minutes long in this sequel, and some major characters from the earlier series, such as Arturo, do not appear outside of flashbacks but may be mentioned or play a role behind the scenes. Nuevos Destinos includes about three hours of video, with an accompanying immersive CD-ROM that allows the user to help Raquel discover what is going on.

https://archive.org/download/nuevosdestinos/nuevos%20destinos.iso from https://archive.org/details/nuevosdestinos

https://archive.org/details/@supersillyspam already has all 15 episodes from VHS, and the CD ROM, Posted!!

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish

    01 La carta (Introducción – La Gavia)
    02 El secreto (Introducción – La Gavia)
    03 El comienzo (Unit II – Un viaje a Sevilla, España)
    04 Perdido (Unit II – Un viaje a Sevilla, España)
    05 La despedida (Unit II – Un viaje a Sevilla, España)
    06 ¿Maestra? (Unit II – Un viaje a Sevilla, España)
    07 La cartera (Unit III – Un viaje a Madrid, España)
    08 El encuentro (Unit III: Un viaje a Madrid, España)
    09 Estaciones (Unit III: Un viaje a Madrid, España)
    10 Cuadros (Unit III: Un viaje a Madrid, España)
    11 La demora (Unit III: Un viaje a Madrid, España)
    12 Revelaciones (Unit IV: Un viaje a la Argentina)
    13 La búsqueda (Unit IV: Un viaje a la Argentina)
    14 En el extranjero (Unit IV: Un viaje a la Argentina)
    15 Culpable (Unit IV: Un viaje a la Argentina)
    16 Caras (Unit IV: Un viaje a la Argentina)
    17 Inolvidable (Unit IV: Un viaje a la Argentina)
    18 Estimada señora Suárez (Unit IV: Un viaje a la Argentina)
    19 Por fin (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    20 Relaciones estrechas (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    21 El peaje (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    22 Recuerdos (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    23 Vista al mar (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    24 El don Juan (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    25 Reflexiones I (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    26 Reflexiones II (Unit V: Un viaje a Puerto Rico)
    27 El rescate (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    28 Atrapados (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    29 ¡Se derrumbó! (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    30 Preocupaciones (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    31 Medidas drásticas (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    32 Ha habido un accidente (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    33 Si supieras (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    34 ¡Éxito! (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    35 Reunidos (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    36 ¿Qué estarán haciendo? (Unit VI: Un viaje a México: El pueblo, la Capital)
    37 Llevando cuentas (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    38 Ocultando la verdad (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    39 La misma sonrisa (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    40 Entre la espada y la pared (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    41 Algo inesperado (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    42 Yo invito (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    43 Seremos cuatro (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    44 Una promesa y una sonrisa (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    45 ¡Estoy harta! (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    46 Las empanadas (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    47 Tengo dudas (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    48 Así fue: I (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    49 Así fue II (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    50 Así fue III (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    51 Así fue IV (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)
    52 Siempre lo amó (Unit VII: Un viaje a México: La Capital)

You may download the ★ entire series ★ at once, HERE (12.3 GB): https://archive.org/compress/destinos_pbs/formats=MPEG4&file=/destinos_pbs.zip

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I made SURE the Spanish Language subtitles were "Burned In" to the Video - if the words appearing onscreen bother you: I AM 100% to Blame for it. But, frankly, I NEEDED Them!!!

In a review posted below: one person commented that "The Annenberg Learner website doesn't have Spanish subtitles from episode 26 forward for some strange reason.". It seems I have the ONLY copy of Destinos, with the Spanish Subtitles burned into every episode, on the internet! It is now the second most popular series in my collection (Because Cosmos pushed it out of first place … in March of 2026)!

These videos are to be used ONLY for free, personal, educational use.

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